The nature of domain walls in ultrathin ferromagnets revealed by scanning nanomagnetometry

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Tetienne, J P ^a   Hingant, T ^a   Martinez L J ^a   Rohart, S ^b   Thiaville, A ^b   Diez, L Herrera ^c   Garcia, K ^c   Adam, J P ^c   Kim, J V ^c   Roch, J F ^a   Miron, I M ^d   Gaudin, G ^d   Vila, L ^e   Ocker, B ^f   Ravelosona, D ^c   Jacques, V ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^f Singulus Technologies   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; METAL COMPLEX; NANOCRYSTAL;

DOMAIN STRUCTURE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOMETER; TORQUE; WALL;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOMETER; MAGNETOMETRY; MOTION; SCANNING NANOMAGNETOMETRY; ULTRATHIN FERROMAGNET;

EID: 84926382765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7733     Document Type: Article

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